Question

In what way do you think donations to Buddhist monasteries helped the Satavahana and Ikshvaka kings?

Answer 1

Satavahana and Ikshvaka:

• Donation to Buddhist monasteries helped the satavahana and Ikshvaka kings in many of prospect.
• The main impact of donation could be seen in field of trade.
• Trade route leading through the western Deccan carried large volumes off traffic moving southwest from the interior of the sub-continent to ports along the west coast.
• Many of Buddhist cave located in these route. There are many categories get benefited due to donation.
• These groups are farmers, Craftspeople, Religious and Merchants.

Answer 2

Answer:

Many of these headmen, women of their families, traders, etc., contributed to the Buddhist Monasteries and Stupas built in Amaravati, Bhattiprolu, Vaddlamanu etc. During this time trade with distant places like Bengal and even Rome became very important. We find a large number of coins including Roman coins and also pots made in Roman style. Merchandise was probably transported in boats along the sea coast and over the Krishna River to the interior towns like Amaravati.

Very interestingly the women of the Ikshavaka family were devoted to Buddhist Saints and made large donations to the famous stupa and monasteries of Nagarjuna Konda. A very large monastery and stupa was built at this place.